Patent GB-294181-A (GB)
Abstract: 294,181. Deurrieux, A., Pomaredes, J., and Perret, L. July 19, 1927, [Convention date]. Totalizators: counting - apparatus; transfermechanism. - In an electric totalizator system, " win " and place " bets of varying amounts are registered by means of tickets previously obtained and inserted in stamping or punching machines. To lay a bet the ticket of the desired value is inserted in a win or place slot in the stamping machine allotted to the value of the bet concerned and this frees a number of horseselecting keys the depression of one of which completes circuits for the operation of the stamping-machine and the registration of the amount on the win or place. horse counter at the central station. The betting operations can be stopped at any time by control from this station. Ticket-stamping machine. A wheel 1, Fig. 1, bearing type on the outer faces of two series of crown teeth 2, 3 is rotatably mounted on a shaft XX<1> and tends to rotate under the action of a spring 4. Rotation is normally prevented by abutment of a lug 15 on the wheel with a pin 16 carried by an annular plate 17, Fig. 2, pivoted at 18 and rocked to the left, Fig. 1, when a horseselecting key 25 is depressed to release a spring- controlled plunger 47 the end 49 of which then presses against the plate. When thus freed the wheel rotates until stopped by engagement of the lug 15 with the plunger and carries with it, by means of a spring pawl 8 an electric impulse wheel 7 adapted to make and break a circuit a number of times corresponding with the number of the horse chosen. The horse-selecting keys 25 are disposed in a circle and their stems 27, Fig. 3, are notched to be locked by a disc 28 perforated for this purpose. Before a key can be used therefore this disc must be rotated slightly counterclockwise to free the stems and this is effected by the armature 41 of an electromagnet 39 in circuit, with a pair of contacts 37, 38, Fig. 1, adapted to be closed by the insertion of a ticket in one or other of the two slots 19, 20 allocated to win and place bets. The unlocking movement of the disc also releases at 44, Fig. 3, a spring blade 45 carrying fingers to engage with a slot in the inserted ticket and so lock it in place until the completion of the registering operations. In circuit with the ticket contacts 37, 38 and the magnet 39 are the impulse contacts 13 and a relay 40, Fig. 15. The magnet 39 is loaded to prevent its operation under the action of the impulses but the relay 40 responds to them and thus operates the selector, described below, to position it in accordance with the horse selected. When the wheel 1 has completed its forward movement the contact of lug 15 and plunger 47 completes circuit for a magnet 24, Fig. 1, the armature 22 of which then rocks and forces upward the chute containing the ticket so as to press this against the type on the wheel 1 and on a series of type wheels 21 on shafts YY. On the completion of its stroke the armature 22 rocks a lever 51, Fig. 2, to break at 53 the circuit to the magnet 24 and to close contacts at 59 preparatory to the energization of a solenoid 31 the function of which is to return the wheel 1 and other parts to normal position when registration at the central station has been completed. When this occurs the magnet 39 is de-energized to allow the locking disc 28 to return under spring action and the armature 41 completes circuit at 55 for the restoring solenoid 31 the core of which thereupon, through a toothed sector 29 returns the wheel 1 to its rest position. The solenoid circuit is broken by restoration of the contact lever 51 by means of the slotted link 58. To stop all betting operations a key 60, Fig. 15, at the, central station may be operated to break the circuits of all the relays 40 and magnets 39 thus preventing the release of anv of the keys. Type wheels 21. Fast on each shaft YY, Fig. 1, is a number wheel 21a for typing the number of the race, this wheel being stepped by the movement of a key 61, Fig. 15, at the control station to close, circuit to the magnet 62. Fig. 2. An indicating disc 64 and a handle 65 allow independent manual adjustment of the shaft and therefore of the race number wheel. On the end of the shaft is mounted a date wheel 21<b>, and on the other side of the wheel 21<a> axe the consecutive number wheels 21<c> and finally the control number wheels 21<d> for impressing a number corresponding with the particular ticket inserted. Consecutive-number type-wheels; ticket clipping. When the impression magnet has operated the lever 51, as above described, the circuit of an electromagnet. 67, Fig. 7, is closed to actuate a pair of knives 69 to cut off the inner end of the ticket, which end then falls into a compartment for subsequent checking. The rocking of the knife frame is also utilized for feeding on the consecutive number wheels by means of the pawls 71. Control number wheels 27<d>. These, are set by the ticket so as to type a number characteristic of that ticket. For this purpose the ticket is provided with hollows on its faces adapted as the ticket is introduced into its slot to co-operate with toothed wheels 74, Fig. 1, geared respectively with the number wheels to position these according to the number of hollows on the ticket. The wheels are spring-controlled so that after the stamping-operations have been completed and the ticket is released it is fed out of the slot by the automatic return of the wheels. Recording operations. Passing between each of the ticket slots and the type-wheels 21<c>, 21<d> is a record-strip line-spaced by a pawl 90, Fig. 2, reciprocated by connection with the restoring solenoid 31 above referred to. Selecting arrangements. As previously described the selection of a key 25 determines the number of impulses effected by the wheel 7 and thus the number of energizations of the relay 40, Figs. 11 and 15. The armature of this relay oscillates between two contacts c, c<1>, Fig. 11. and when on contact c<1> completes circuit, through a slow relay 101 and magnet 100. The armature 110<1>, Fig. 12, of the latter operates a ratchet drive for a brush arm 115<1>, travelling over a bank of contacts 114<1> each connected electrically with a contact in a corresponding collector appertaining to a horse. Thus the first contact 114<1> will be wired to a contact in the collector for horse No. 1, the second contact to horse No. 2 collector and so on. When the makes and breaks of the relay 40 cease, the relay remains energized and the slow relay 101 being now effectively de-energized permits contact f to close so that the following circuit is complete,-earth, contact 105. relay 106. contact f, contact 93 (if a " win " bet), brush arm 115', contact 114<1> with which it engages and so to horse collector 111. When the constantly rotating arm 109 of the latter completes the circuit to register the bet, the slow relay 106 is effective to break at a the circuit through the relav 40 and the magnet 39 and consequently to restore the ticket-stamping machine to normal. The brush arm 115' after the passage of the registering current continues to rotate, but without effect on the registering, until it comes to rest in normal position. To effect this a vibrator 110, Fig. 11, becomes in circuit with slow relay 106, when this has responded to the registering current, and so maintains the intermittent activity of magnet 100 until by the arm 115<1> reaching home position a contact at j is broken to break the circuit through the magnet. If the control key 60 is operated to stop the machines, an operation in progress in any machine will be completed and the ticket released. This is due to the relay 98 keeping the relay 40 energized by means of a circuit, including contacts e, a, Fig. 11, and relay 101, maintaining the impulse circuit through contact d and relay 100. Registering the bets. In the apparatus described the bets may be in sums of 5, 20, 50 and 500 francs, and the horse collectors 111 have consequently four banks of contacts one for each sum, and a contact brush arm 109 for each bank. The arms sweep over the banks in succession so that while one bank is being brushed the others are not in circuit. As shown in Fig. 15 in the case of one collector 111 the brushes are in circuit with commutators C1 C2, C3, C4 controlling respectively the fractions, units, tens, and (hundreds and thousands) denominations of the counter or indicator. Each commutator in general resembles in construction the selector shown in Fig. 12 but on the shaft of the ratchet wheel 103<1> is a contact finger 112, Fig. 13, wiping over a conducting segment to provide the contact D which is open only when the commutator arm 115<1> is in home position. Moreover the brush arms are double as shown in Fig. 12 to wipe contacts first in one bank and then on the adjacent bank. In Fig. 13 is shown the special commutator C4, with three such double arms and corresponding banks of contacts and the shaft is geared in the ratio of 5 : 2 with a secondary commutator 118 adapted to engage successively with segments 119, 119<1>, 119<11>, (see Fig. 15). Indicators. Each indicator consists of rows of lamps 120, Fig. 17, one (or more) for each commutator. The betting unit is five francs and any bets of less than 20 francs are shown as 1, 2 or 3 units at the bottom of the lamp field. The 20 franc bets are indicated in four-unit succession in the first vertical bank and the other banks function to show higher values in the usual way. In the normal state represented in Fig. 15 the zero lamps are illuminated, the circuit for example in the case of the tens of thousands denomination served by commutator C5, Fig. 15. passing from battery 122 through the lamp to the 0 contact and brush 115<1> and thence to earth. In the case of the thousands bank the circuit is from battery 123 through segment 119, lamp 0, left hand (or sixth) bank of contacts of commutator C4 and th